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				<h1 class="study-title">Consumer Expenditure Survey, 1984:  Interview Survey (ICPSR 8671)</h1>
				<p><span><strong>Principal Investigator(s):</strong>
						United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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		        		<h2>Project Description:</h2>
								<p><span><strong>Summary:</strong> The ongoing Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) provides a
continuous flow of information on the buying habits of American
consumers and also furnishes data to support periodic revisions of the
Consumer Price Index. The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) consists of
two separate components: (1) a quarterly Interview panel survey in
which each consumer unit in the sample is interviewed every three
months over a 15-month period, and (2) a Diary or record keeping survey
completed by the sample consumer units for two consecutive one-week
periods. The Interview survey was designed to collect data on major
items of expense, household characteristics, and income. The
expenditures covered by the survey are those which respondents can
recall fairly accurately for three months or longer. In general, these
expenditures include relatively large purchases, such as those for
property, automobiles, and major appliances, or expenditures which
occur on a fairly regular basis, such as rent, utilities, or insurance
premiums. Expenditures incurred while on trips are also covered by the
survey. Excluded are nonprescription drugs, household supplies, and
personal care items. Including global estimates on spending for food,
it is estimated that about 95 percent of expenditures are covered in
the Interview survey. The Consumer Unit Characteristics and Income
(FMLY) files in this collection contain consumer unit characteristics,
consumer unit income, characteristics and earnings of the reference
person, and characteristics and earnings of the spouse. Summary
expenditure data are also provided. The Member Characteristics and
Income (MEMB) files present selected characteristics for each consumer
unit member, including reference person and spouse. Each record in the
FMLY and MEMB files consists of three months of data. Detailed
Expenditures (MTAB) files provide monthly data at the Universal
Classification Code (UCC) level. In these files expenditures for each
consumer unit are classified according to UCC categories and are
specified as gifts or non-gifts. The Income (ITAB) files supply monthly
data at the UCC level for consumer unit characteristics and income.
Parts 21 through 25 of the collection offer consumer durables
information for the following topics: household appliance purchases,
inventory of appliances, vehicle inventory and purchases, vehicle
disposals, and travel. Parts 26 and 27 are files designed for use with
the printed publication based on these data.</span></p>
								<p><span><strong>Citation:</strong> <div class="csl-bib-body">
  <div class="csl-entry">United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consumer Expenditure Survey, 1984:  Interview Survey. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-07-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08671.v2</div>
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								<p><span><strong>Subject Terms:</strong> automobile expenses, consumer behavior, consumer expenditures, consumption, debt, demographic characteristics, durable goods, employment, energy consumption, families, fixed income, food costs, household appliances, household budgets, household expenditures, household income, housing costs, insurance, purchasing, recreation expenses, taxes, unemployment benefits, vehicles, wages and salaries</span></p>
								<p><span><strong>Geographic Coverage:</strong> United States</span></p>
								<p><span><strong>Distributor(s):</strong> Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research</span></p>
		        		<h2>Scope of Project:</h2>
								<p><span><strong>Time Period(s):</strong> 1984</span></p>
								<p><span><strong>Data Collection Notes:</strong> This survey includes both urban and rural data., Setup statements and system files are based on the information provided by the codebooks.</span></p>
		        		<h2>Methodology:</h2>
								<p><span><strong>Sample:</strong> The CES is based on a national probability sample of households. The sampling frame was generated from the 1970 Census 100 percent detail file, augmented by new construction permits and coverage improvement techniques used to eliminate recognized deficiencies in that census. The sample design is a rotating panel survey in which one-fifth of the sample is dropped and a new group added each quarter.  Each panel is interviewed for five consecutive quarters and then dropped from the survey.</span></p>
								<p><span><strong>Universe:</strong> Total civilian, non-institutionalized population of the
United States.</span></p>
								<p><span><strong>Unit(s) of Observation:</strong> Consumer expenditure</span></p>
								<p><span><strong>Data Source:</strong> personal interviews</span></p>
								<p><span><strong>Method of Data Collection:</strong> survey data</span></p>
		        		<h2>Version(s):</h2>
								<p><span><strong>Original Release Date:</strong> 1987-05-19</span></p>
								<p><span><strong>Version History:</strong> 2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was: <ul><li>United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consumer Expenditure Survey, 1984:  Interview Survey. ICPSR08671-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-07-14. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08671.v2</li></ul>, 2010-07-14 New data, setup, and system files were generated and added to the archive for subsequent distribution., 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 30 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads., <p>1987-05-19 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:</p><ul><li>Created variable labels and/or value labels.</li></ul></span></p>
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